The transportation method of linear programming is extended to a more general class of problem, for which the "stepping-stone method" of Charnes and Cooper fails. The method is applicable to various ...

George B. Dantzig, the mathematician who invented the field of linear programming, which revolutionized the way government and private enterprise planned, scheduled and generally conducted their ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1976), pp. 145-154 (10 pages) A numerically stable form of an algorithm that is closely related to the work of Gill and Murray [5] and Conn [3 ...